On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, SM wrote:

> I tested the fix below and it does not cause a timeout. Curl keeps on
> waiting even if it does not receive any data. Reading the socket does
> not return a -1 as the connection has not been teared down.

[snip]

> I used netcat to reproduce the problem on the server side. I set netcat
> to listen on a port, then got Curl to ftp to that port. Curl waited
> indefinitely as the value of keepon is zero.

It is?

So the read returns 0? Ok, so the check (on line 285) should instead be

      else if(keepon <= 0)
        error = SELECT_ERROR;

Right?

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  Daniel Stenberg -- curl project maintainer -- http://curl.haxx.se/